Transcendental Truth

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Transcendental Truth

K. Sadananda, D-15, Aashiayana, Alwarpet, Chennai-18

(An article written for Aashiana News Letter)

 

According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, Life evolves continuously, like a

tree branching out in every direction possible. But we find evolution in

any particular branch proceeds only up to some point and then stops.

According to the famous biologist, Aldus Huxley, the evolution stops in a

particular direction when there is a major anatomical or biological

transformation. Among the reptiles, for example, the evolutionary ladder

stopped when the forehands transformed into wings. Among the mammals the

pinnacle of evolution is the Man. Further anatomical evolution stopped with

the Man, due to the development of ‘conceptual thought’. Anatomically, no

further evolution can occur beyond man – any further evolution is only in

the ‘subtlety of the thought’. Man is different from all animate world only

because he has the capacity to think – which manifests in terms of the

capacity to create.

 

'Conceptual thought' is the basis for the advances in science and

technology. It is only a man who questions – Why am I born? Is there a

purpose for life? What is life? And what is death? Is there a life after

death? Is this a creation? Is there a creator? Where is He and why did he

create? Why did He create me? – and so on. Science as no answer to many of

these questions. Religions were developed to address these issues that are

beyond the Einsteinian world of time and space. We are indeed blessed with

sages and saints of the yore, the subjective scientists, who gave up

everything to inquire into the very depths of inner core of human

personality to find answers to the above questions. They have left with us

their findings in the form of revelations, recorded and codified in the form

of Upanishads, for the benefit of entire humanity. The Upanishads are

pinnacle of evolution of the conceptual thought where highest truths are

revealed in a form to push the human intellect to the highest heights. When

Western philosophers and scientists still struggling even now to define “Who

I am? What is consciousness?”, six to ten thousands of years ago our sages

have already found the answers and recorded for the posteriori. When

Descartes says “ I think, therefore I am”, our philosophers have accurately

stated as “ I am, therefore I think”. When Einstein define the time as “a

gap between two sequential events”, our philosophers defined time as “ a gap

between two sequential experiences”, bringing subjectivity into the

definition of time. They have recognized that ‘time’ is the concept of the

mind. Since time and space are interrelated, both are projections of the

mind. They dared to question: Does the world exist because I see it? Or Do

I see the world because it exists?

 

Since ‘time’ requires two experiences, there is no time when there is only

one experience. This happens in our deep sleep state, where we have only a

single experience of sleep and we loose the concept of time and hence space

as well. Only when awakened, which forms a second experience, we gain the

knowledge of space and time. In the final analysis, even the time becomes

an imaginary. We live in the ‘present’, since the past is dead and gone and

the future has not yet come. We live in the present, we act in the present,

we experience in the present – and the whole life is living in the present.

Time is a moving present. But if one analyzes deeply, the present is very

thin imaginary line between past and present to the degree that time has no

existence. What is there in the present is only our presence, which cannot

be negated – and that is the transcendental truth.

 

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

 

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